The United Kingdom is the safest place to be a child, while Pakistan is the least safe. That’s according to a new index that ranks 40 countries on how well they’re responding to the threat of sexual ...

The United States has several hundred military bases scattered across the world. But how do citizens within countries hosting US troops feel about those bases and US military personnel? In this ...

Moments ago, the United Nations General Assembly voted on a resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Israel and Gaza. This vote at the General Assembly comes after the United ...

The current refugee crisis arising from civil upheaval in the Middle East and Africa has caused over 4.1 million people to flee Syria alone since 2011. While the majority of asylum seekers in the ...

The economist Chris Blattman is well known in academic and policy circles for his research and writing on peace, conflict and economic development. Chris Blattman is a professor at the Harris School ...

On January 1 st, 2018, Iceland became the first country in the world to make pay inequality illegal. Companies that cannot prove pay equality will be fined close to $500 a day that the gap continues ...

Why do men harass women on the street? How prevalent is catcalling, ogling and stalking? And what do women think of this harassment? A first-of-its kind multi-country survey on attitudes of men and ...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has posed a major test for the United Nations. And while some parts of the UN system have admirably risen to the occasion, the Security Council has not. On the line with ...

Hunger will be the humanitarian disaster of 2017. The UN already declared a full fledged famine in parts of South Sudan last month, and three other situations around the world are precariously close ...

I’ll cut to the chase: Because of some funding decisions out of our control, UN Dispatch is pivoting to a crowdfunding model. We are moving to Substack and I need your help to keep our coverage of the ...

The United Nations is hosting a “Summit of the Future” in September during the annual opening the UN General Assembly. If all goes according to plan, world leaders will endorse a so-called “Pact for ...

Around the world the HIV rates for men and women are more or less equal — except, that is, in sub-saharan Africa. This is the only region in the world where the HIV rates for women are substantially ...